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Juncos Racing announced that Garett Grist will join the team for the 2015 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires. Grist is the fourth and final driver to commit to the 2014 Pro Mazda Championship-winning team. Canadian native Grist, 19, returns to the Pro Mazda Championship after completing an impressive rookie season in 2014, recording three wins and three poles with Andretti Autosport...

If you're a fan of feel-good stories, get ready for dozens more courtesy of Mazda. Since it was launched in 2010, the Mazda Road to Indy has offered the most defined and articulated path for young drivers to reach the Verizon IndyCar Series. It has also become open-wheel racing's greatest scholarship program, and new chapters will be written in 2015 and beyond thanks to the Japanese manufacturer....

Florida-based Hi-Tide Boat Lifts, a manufacturer of boat lifts and accessories for over three decades, announced today that it will join Kyle Connery in the 2015 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires as the primary program partner. "I could not be more excited about this," said Connery. "I first met Craig Wood, the owner of Hi-Tide Boat Lifts, through an introduction of my marketing ag...

The first Open Test for Team Pelfrey and Andretti Autosport is scheduled for December 8-9, 2015, at NOLA Motorsports Park in Avondale, LA. It will be the initial opportunity for teams to sample the newly constructed circuit before the Verizon IndyCar Series takes to the 2.67-mile track April 10-12, 2015. The test will be open to the public at no cost and fans will have the opportunity to watch th...

Juncos Racing announced that Will Owen will join the team for the 2015 Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires season. Owen is the second driver to commit to the 2014 Pro Mazda Championship team. Moving up the "Mazda Road to Indy" ladder, Will Owen, 19, advances to the Pro Mazda series after contesting he 2014 USF2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires. Owen scored one win and earned...

Andersen Promotions today unveiled the 2015 racing calendars for the Mazda Road to Indy - the highly acclaimed driver training program for the next generation of Verizon IndyCar Series stars. All three development series -- Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires, the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires and the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda -- will feature an expan...

Jake Parsons and Colton Herta, the two winners at Sepang's AsiaCup Series at the weekend, are set to go head to head again in two weeks, this time at Sebring. Both are testing for Cape Motorsports, the junior formula team that is a partnership with Wayne Taylor Racing. Herta, who ran this season in USF2000, is trying out for a different team while Parsons, who leads the AsiaCup Series in Malaysia...

Two days of testing for all three levels of the Mazda Road to Indy concluded today during the fourth annual Chris Griffis Memorial Test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. A total of 25 drivers participated in the outing which serves as an "audition" platform for both teams and drivers looking ahead to 2015 campaigns. Verizon IndyCar Series driver Josef Newgarden was also on hand for ...

One week ago I made my debut in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires at the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma. My week started off as usual working my nine-to-five job at Gen Right Off Road in Simi Valley, California as a production MIG welder, but I was very excited to be leaving for Sonoma on Wednesday afternoon, preparing for my first drive in a Pro Mazda car. The Thursday test sessio...

After riding an emotional roller coaster of epic proportions during last weekend's final two rounds of the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires at Sonoma Raceway, Spencer Pigot emerged as a deserving series champion on Saturday. The 20-year-old from Orlando, Fla., received by far the loudest ovation during the following evening's season-closing banquet which featured almost 300 guests...

No one could have written a script as convoluted as the one which played out in today's Pro Mazda Grand Prix of Sonoma. The Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires was at stake, along with a $588,800 MAZDASPEED Driver Development Scholarship for the series champion to graduate to Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires, the next step on the Mazda Road to Indy, in 2015. A sequence of almost...

Kyle Kaiser, from nearby Santa Clara, Calif., this afternoon celebrated his first victory in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires following a fine performance for Juncos Racing at his home track, Sonoma Raceway. Equally significant was the lap 4 collision between title rivals Spencer Pigot and Scott Hargrove which ended with series points leader Pigot on the sidelines and Hargrove...

A few weeks ago, MAXSpeed Group and Andersen Promotions joined forces in a partnership program to help advance the careers of young karters into the Mazda Road to Indy. Today the parrtners announced that Verizon IndyCar Series racer James Hinchcliffe, Indy Lights points leader Gabby Chaves, veteran karter and multi-time Team USA member Alan Rudolph and three-time Rotax Grand Finals champion Ben C...